FOREIGN RELATIONS,--1950, VOLUME I


the international control of atomic energy, with a view to both-con-
ventions being concluded and carried into effect simultaneously,
  "2. To instruct the said commission to pregpare th6e draft conven-
tions referred to in- the foregoing paragraph and submit them to the
SC not later than June 1, 1951."

                                                            AUSTIN
IO Files: A/1722
Resolution Adopted by the General Assembly at its 323rd Plenary
             Meeting, New York, December 13, 1950'I

 [GA 496(V)]
           INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY

TIh  General Assembly,
  Recognizing that the effective regulation and reduction of national
armaments would substantially diminish the present danger of war,
relieve the heavy economic burden placed upon the peoples of the
world in the absence of a system of armaments control, and permit
the greater use of man's resources to projects devoted to his
betterment,
  Recognizing that the regulation and reduction of armaments to
be effective must cover weapons of all kinds, must be based on unani-
mous agreement, and so must include every nation having substantial
armaments and armed forces,
  Recognizing further that any plan for the regulation and reduction
of armaments and armed forces must be based upon safeguards that
will secure the compliance of all nations,
  Recognizing the inability to date to achieve agreement among na-
tions on the elimination of atomic weapons under a system of effective
international control of atomic energy and on the regulation and
reduction of other armaments and armed forces,
  Recalling that a plan has been developed in the United Nations
Atomic Energy Commission, and-approved by the General Assembly,
for the international control of atlomic energy, which would make ef-
fective the prohibition of atomic weapons; and that much useful
planning work has been accomplished" in the Commission for Con-
ventional Armaments,
  Desiring, however, to carry this work forward toward a compre-
hensive system of armaments control,

1Regarding the action by the General Assembly which culminated in thle
adoption of this resolution, see editorial note, p. 122.


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